While Cuban officials are granted airtime as they forcefully denounce American policies at a walking distance from the US Capitol building, similarly reasonable positions on the part of Iran are treated as outrageous demands.

Elite media’s utter lack of interest in former US Attorney General Eric Holder going from investigating big financial interests to representing them at law firm Covington & Burling suggests that outrage is outre.

'Somewhat arbitrary,' though pretty much 'what NPR already knows'

National Public Radio ombud Elizabeth Jensen responds to FAIR’s study of NPR commentary, saying, “I find the specific numbers in the study somewhat arbitrary, even though the broad sweep of its conclusions pretty much echo what NPR already knows.”

CounterSpin interview with Gareth Porter on the Iran deal

“How did the US come to the point where it was ready to negotiate a deal on the nuclear program with Iran? And the answer to that is certainly not something that you will learn from reading the news media accounts.”

Glenn Greenwald traces the transmission of a demonstrably false claim from nameless “intelligence and military officials” to a front-page piece in the New York Times to other journalists gleefully retweeting and reprinting the false claim as fact.

It’s true, as CNN’s Anderson Cooper says, that most depressed people, and people with mental illness in general, will never hurt anyone. But it’s just as true that religious beliefs–“extremist” or otherwise–don’t “lead most people to kill other people.”

Face the Nation’s discussion of the Iran deal would have been more satisfying if anyone had acknowledged the reality that it would be foolish for Iran to accept unlimited inspections anywhere on its territory.